The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1900. ADVERTISEMENTS. GolfRash Heat Rash, Chafings, Irritations, Tan, Sune burn, Bites and Stings, Too Free or Oiffen- sive Perspiration, Red, Rough, Blistered Hands, Tired, Lamed, Strained Muscles, (ULICUrq ”SOAP + Followed when necessary by gentle applications of CUTICURA Ointment, purest and sweet= est of emollients and greatest of skin cures. e Use Cuticura Soap Exclusively for preserving, ¥ the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and ng of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and soothing Milliorts of Peopi opp s of Wo CurTicTRA SOAP in the form of baths for annoying flammations, and chafings, too free or offensive perspiration, in the tive w esses, for many sanative antiseptic purposes mselves to women, especially mothers, and for all the th, and nursery. Noamount of persuasion can induce d it to use any other, especially for preserving and puri- d hair of infants and chiidren. 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All cured. Send for free Also - private diseases qui y Book. Y Powel! Telephone—South 420, \ | : i Weekly Gal $L00 narfi& CAFE ROVAL 27 Nothing eise | **Book- | “for sale at 10733 | CTAIC RO FORBIODEN O JRST STREET Market-Street Company Is Ordered to Postpone Operations. g Corporation Will Take Up Unused Rails—House Movers Protest Against Excessive License on Their Business. The Board of n at yeste Supervisors adopted a res- rday’'s meeting which will of tempprarily prohigiting reet tallw Combpany the First street road into ing. Mayor Tobin directed the Police to prevent their erection 1 perm n had been obtained from rd of Supervisors. Mayor Tobin said erection of overhead wires, and that he would certainly oppose any high-handed proceeding on the part of the corporation in constructing an electric line on First street, ¢ other street, where permis- n had not first been obtained. on the subject was intro- Curtis, and gives notice to the et Railway Company that it ostpone operations hanging the road an electric line. led notice that it would duced by Market will be req mplated street in nto The August 4, but the stigate before nmenced. It will be the company P to begin ~ope was adopted imm ard of Public Works that the work be not ority. T Market Street Rallway Company petitioned that be granted permissio to 3 t the from Filbert ack and switches; or Mason street; . ) Taylor; on Berry street, from | . reet, from Mont- a'single track 1 street. f eet to N » o H street petition was referred to the Com- tee on Strec House-Movers Protest. ition from Henry Chester and Pat- n that th o a ey be given a hearing inst the proposed law % per quarter on | and house-raisers was re- rick Gleasc A of ‘house-movir combinatio 1 therisely ] Francisco Hous . In which name they a gle license. 1 The ordinance allowing the San Fran- cisco epecial messenger service to malin- taln overhead wires In certain sections of the city was opposed by Reed, who said that there was a law compelling all wires ¥ to be placed underground. A long discus- sfon was brought to an end by referring nce to the City Aftorney for sfon as to the power of the board | to grant the privilege. Violation of Charter. The ordinance eliminating certain ap- propriations from the provisions of the twelfth act contained in the charter| passed. Brandenstein op- | age on the ground that it was T violation of the charter. Reed explained that unless certain funds were exempted by ordinance that some of artments of the city government me to a standstill. resolved that in all instances as lamps were located beneath arc lights and both were used for lluminating purposes the gaslights should be discontinued and the electric are lights | be permitted to remain; also that where gas lamps at present serve to mark the fire alarm boxes the globes of arc lamps remaining wbe | | | | | i the crowned with a red rim for the purpose of designating the location of these boxes. Miscellaneous Business. elect The ordinance imposing a license of $3 per bootblack stands located on streets or alks, and raquiring permits to cong from the Board of Public Works, k; ‘the ordinance im was eing | icitors was amended to | < per quarter and the price ers’ badges $1 50 each; the Independent Light and Power Company was grant- ssion to use ofl as fuel In the boilers of i nerating plant at Twenty-third and | Loulsiana streets. The Finance Committee was directed to deposit the Windel bequest of $18. the Hibernia, German and Mutual | clety Park a The balance of 24102 in the Berna improvement fund of the last fiscal vear | ed to the general fund of this Dlted to the further improvement fc. The City Attorney was re- opinion_ whether an appropria- quested for h tion can lsga be made for the Semi-Centen- Admission day celebration. Superintend- of P Bullding= was directed to make | | n inventory of all property belonging to the | ity in the c buildings. The Commercial Publishing was authorized to assign its contract for printing municipal reports for 18327400 to Wiillam M. Hinton Jr.. provided he | files a sufficlent bond with the boa ThoA1 Board of Health was authorized by ordinance, ed ieor Curtis, to abate a | casioned by dumping of sewage in | construction_ of & k roadway on Spear street, between Harri- and Bryant. at a cost of $5100, was laid | over for one week, when Commissioner Ma- guire of the Board of Works will submit a new | proposition on the subject. The application of Charles Hinckle for permission to hunt jack- | | rabbits with a_shotgun was referred to_the | Committee on Public Utilities. The ordinance | license on stationary wagons or vhich merchandise is sold was y postponed. The Committee on Pub- | e Utilities will meet this evening at § o’ clock | 16 take up the guestion of a municipal water supply system. and also to consider plans for a city electrical distributing plant i Referred to Committees. The following petitions and communications were referred to committees: J Simpson, re- questing that the sidewalks on the west side | Of Plerce street. between Vallefo and Green, be restored to a passable condition and asking | for cthersimprovements in the vieinity: Patrick Healy, for the constriction of a sewer in Sharp | Nace, betwaen Union and Green, Hyde and Leavenworth streets: Amflrn!} l—?le’rlrflru En- mering Associntion. requesting information 5% the proposed new telephons exchange: Fed- o ation of Mission Improvement Clubs, stating that it i= opposd to the purchase of any water fvetem which depends on a storage supply: Daniel Harrington, calling attention to the dil- | atory tactics pursued ip replacing the Burnett &choo! by a more substantial building: H. H. Tnited States Commissioner of Imhigra- | tion. requesting information as to the terms | under which the Harbor Police Station at Meiggs Wharf may be leased. Street Work. ~solutions were adopted providing for street wgrk. as follows: Fixing and establishing Frades in the University Mound district: order- e the laying of artificial stone sidewalks on | the west side of Angelica street. from Nine- | thenth street southerly to the termination of | Kngelica street: providing for the removal of | gas lamps from public streets where they are fhcated beneath slectric arc lights: rmvm,.' tor e replacing of the welectric arc lights which surround the City Hall grounds with incan- descent gas lamps. ——— Insurance Agent Landis Arrested. Fdward C. Landis, insurance agent, was arrested vesterday afternoon on a war- | North, ! rant charging him with nt\_flln: to allow jon of his books. e complain- 22:"::;’."" k Du Bois. Mr. Landis was taken to the California-street |g&r‘\e n-na was r’l-ed on -~ ice sta- ting $150 . The company recent- | ted poles along the street named, | vesterday that he was against the | on | | rest and recreation, the school {smade whirligi FIVE PAINTER FROM A jured and Th | | | | | D i I S S e S o o ACCIDENT TO PAINTERS AT THE FRANKLIN SCHOOL. S THROWN SCAFFOLDING AL Y Harry Murphy Is Probably Fatally In- ree Others Are More or Less Hurt. :+89+§+88+§+§+g;+ e I BeReRGRNIRIRER+O DD - DD D-o o . 4 B 3 + b 3 ® ¥ ° be @ $ | I | found it. ¢ 8! EARLY DUTCH DISCOVERERS AND EXPLORERS. Copyright, 1907, by Seymour Eaton. 2 DISCOVERERS AND EXPLORERS OF NORTH i AMERICA,. ~ e, SN R LR Ijohn Smith, just c)osingh hlll cax;er at o amestown, telling him that in the pre- Born saflors the Dutch | Lio " immer he had explored the Chesa- | were sure to be no laggard: exploring | peake Bay and was convinced the passage and exploiting the New World. At ‘!ht‘ to the Indies lay a little north. The letter | fag end of the sixteenth century Willlam | Barendz made his three historic voyages, | discovered Spitzbergen and sailed nearer | to the pole than any previous explorer: |and Kirk Gerrits making southward touched the fringe of the great Antarctie continent, first among the sailors to that far distant land. A little later, in 1609, while John Smith still lay prostrate of the hurt inflicted on | him by the accidental explosion of a bag of gunpowder, and while the pilgrims | were settling In Leyden, there to tarry for ten years or more, the little Half | Moon, under a Dutch flag but a British | captain, flitted along our coast, entered | the beautiful river that bears the cap- tain’s name and ascended it to the site of | Albany. But Henry Hudson was not the | first to spy out the river which bears his name. Many Europeans had already Long years before, Verrazano | entered New York harbor, Gomez coasting south took not river. When in 1614 a syndicate of Dutch merchants a{mhpd to their Government for a special license to trade up and down | the, Hudson they stated that the French | had first found out the river and lon befote the time of Henry Hudson had | traded there with the Mohawks. There | can be Httle doubt that French skippers from time to time salled the river of the Steep Hills, even up to the site of Alb to Fe: furs from the Indians, and about buflt a fort on a long. low island “near the present southern limits of the ity of | Albany.” Henry Hudson was therefore not the was of extreme value and, as Fiske points t attached the name of John Smith of American history 1 as in the southern By May 1 the Half nd among the ice- a Zembla, and the such coid weather and out, were quarreling among nd growing, like_the sailors insubordinate. Hudson un- der pressure turned toward America, skirted the coast from Nova Scotia to the Chesapeake. mistook probably Machipon- go Inlet for the James River, passed it with the remark. “This is the entrance into the King’s River in Virginia, where our lishmen are,” turned northward, entered Delaware Bay, followed the New coast to Sandy Hook, and Septem- ropped anchor off Staten Island like Verrazano eighty-five vears before. The natives thereabouts crowded around the boats of the foremost sailor of the year. The mat journal tells us “the people of the country came aboard of us, seeming very of our coming.” Grow ing familiar as Half Moon made its way up the river, which Hudson thought a strait connecting with the Indian Ocean, some of the Indians paid the penalty of their lives for their temerity, but they gave a good account of themselves in bat- tle. After a week or more, as the nar- the river and freshening of the oved that Hudson was not in the strait_he longed to find, he cast anchor just above the present site of Albany, set the bad example followed by of his the white man, and then e o e e e e e e o o e e o I e e e e e I e e e e S e aa e as | painters a were precipitated | ==1vE 1§,frnm scaffoiding to a concrete 1 below while at work on the Fr: klin School build- ing, Eighth and Bryant streets, yester- day afternoon. injuries which may cause his death; three others were badly bruised and the fifth clung to a rope, saving himself from a dangerous fall. The accident was due to the slipping of one of the hooks which eld the platform In place. Had the scaf- folding been at a higher point on the building the men would undoubtedly have been instantly killed. Harry Samuel Snow. Charles Bert Holland and Joseph McCar- ty, painters in the employ of Gus Schnee, have been at work on the school building for geveral da They had almost fi jshed' their contract and were gradual approaching the basement on the west side when the accident occurred. The One of the men received | | scaffolding on which they worked was made t by hooks on the edge of the roof.. When about fifteen feet from the nd the strain on the ropes caused one hooks to slip from its place hurling the men to the pavement below. Murphy was on the end of the board which gave away first. He struck the concrete with terrible force and was s badly injured about the head and internal- ly that the physicians fear that he will not recover. Snow, whose seat was next to Murphy's, was also severely bruised and his chin lacerated. Bert Holland escaped with a strained foot and leg. Charles Brooks fell upon the cther men and se- verely wrenched his hip. McCarty was on the other end of the board and when the hook slipped he clutched the rope which remained fast and held it until he reached r{nfi ground, thus breaking the force of his a Murphy and Snow were taken to the City Recelving Hospital; Holland was sent to his home at 204 Second street, and Brooks was helped to his residence at 104 | Hickory avenue. THOUSANDS OF PUPILS RETURN T0 THEIR DESKS Schools Reopen and Teach- ers Are Busy Straight- ening Out Classes. e Vacation joys are dreams of the past | with the school children of this city. Thousands were up early vesterday morn- ing and overturned their houses search- | ing for slates and pencils, books and bags and other necessary accessories of educa- tion. Refreshed by their six weeks of chiidren and their teachers presented a bright ap- pearance when they greeted cach other in their respective eclassrooms. house of learning was the ity. cene of actlv Teachers fussed and fumed in their | efforts to bring order out of chaos, and | it is more than llkely they will not com- lete this task until the latter part of this week. This is due entirely to the up- heaval the Board of Education has made in the department during the past months. Teachers have been dismissed, classes consolidated and grammar-grade pupils have been ordered tain schools Superintendent of Schools Webster and his assistants—Deputies Kingsbury, How- ard% and Jordan—visited the - various schools and lent their aid in straighten- ing out the tangle. Up at the Poly Hikh School. Bush and S:m-knm“‘;xef:\:z.‘sc. Principal Bush gazed at his empty class’ | rooms and recailed their crowded appear- ance during the past year. Of the 600 pu- pils who were under his sway there re- main but 200 because of the action of the School Board. The commercial clagses that counted long rows of figures and and other undeciphera- ble notes in their shorthand books and hammered the typewriters in the pursuit of a business education have been moved to the old Everett building. which is im- mediately in back of the Lincoln School on Fifth street. According (o reports, the commercial classes are crowded to their utmost capacity. More than 300 are registered and more are applying. Both the Lowell and the Girls® High schools have a_ very large attendance. { They will Have four or five junior classes apiece. The changes which have been wrought in the Irving M. Scott, Grant and other schools are not to the liking of the pa- rents, and the latter are up in arms agai the board. The Longfellow Pri- mary School has been abolished, and the pupils who attended that school have been sent to the new Longfellow Grammar School, which was the old Rincon Gram- mar School, and to the Whittier Primary School. Miss Ida E. Shaw. principal of the Grant Primary School, has lost three classes by reason of her three grammar grades being ordered to attend the near- ! est grammar schools. This move not only reduced Miss Shaw's salary $10 monthly but compels her to teach a class in addi- tion to her duties as principal. The same is true of Mrs. K. E. Brogan of the Moul- der Primary and M! L. McElroy of the Harrison Primary School. Miss A Deane, principal of the Redding Primar, School, loses a class, but it does not af- fect her salary. The puplls of the Irving M. Scott School who are | pelled to travel to the nearest grammar | schoo!, nearly two miles from their place of residence.” The mothers are Indignant and threaten an indignation meeting to | protest against their children being com- pelied to travel so great a distance to at- tend school. A prominent member of the School De- ent discussing the present outlook &. al educational circles said: “qI have never seen such an upheaval in the department and so much dlssatisf: tion on the part of the parents, pupils and teachers. There is a great deal of unrest because of the summary action of the board in_consolidating classes and remov- ing teachers. ‘It is reported that twenty more teachers will suffer loss of employ- ment through the new plan of consolida- tion. t the “The Board of Education has number of pupils in a class at fifty-five, but at the urgent request of the princi- pals it has modified this order so that where rooms have not space for fifty-five desks so many puplls as can be accom- modated are to form the class. As there (irge anoustt to accommodate fity: rooms large enough to accommodate fifty- five desks, the order will fall of its own impracticabili to, because it s ity. It ought is extremely o{mcuu for a her to educate a class in which there are fifty- a pils. > ve pu; Every few | to attend cer- | upils | n the grammar grades are com- | TEXAS RECRUITS OBJECT T0 DUTY IN GARRISONS ‘Gallant Boys Frem the Lone Star State Want to Fight the Boxers. —_— There is no lack of good material for the United States army, and every day witnesses the arrival of recruits at the Presidio. While every recruiting station throughout the country is forwarding large numbers of men for the service, the | office at Dallas, Texas, should be yielded the paim. One lot of ‘“rookies” niumber- ing eighty-five went out on the Hancock, and to-day twenty-five more were re- celved at the post. So anxlous are these soldiers to see service that they al- most demand of the commanding officer that they be assigned to regiments going to China immediately. No half-way meas- ures will suit these hardy Texans, and | every one of them declares he “didn’t en- | list for any garrison duty.” | The tnird battalion of the Fifteenth In- fantry arrived at the Presidio yesterday morning. The battalion §s composed of Companies I, K, L and M. I, K and L are from Governors Island., New York, and M i from Fort McPherson, Ga. The bat- talion is officered by Lieutenant Colonel C. H. Willlams, Major G. A. Cornish, Cap- tains G. Cook. E. D. Mitchell, A. R. | Paxton and J. Cotter: First Lieutenants F. E. Bamford (adjutant), T. R. Harker F. Wilkinson; Second Lieutenants y and Dan T. Moore, and Troops alry arrived at the Presi | day afternoon and were assigned quarters i late yester- in the hillside camp. The four a total strength of ten officers and 398 men and are accompanied by two veter- troops have | L d . L 4 . B * LS * ® * > : L 4 * L 4 - i - ® i o o e ol S ol R | @iscoverer of the Hudson River. that matter was he the first to find the | strait, the bay or the vast tract of land {in the far north that bear his name. As Dr. Asher proves. the strait and bay. as well as river, were marked on maps be- fore the time of Hudson. Probably the memory of the man would long since have perished but for the linking of his name Rith very important physiographical fea- | Tures of our Western Hemisphere. His | special service to the exploration of the ‘{)'mnem World was to push a little far- ther up and inland, to leave a somewhat | more distinct though still imperfect rec- | ord of the region visited than any pre- vious voyagers and to bring the Dutch to | Manhattan Island. He corrected in some measure the popular belief as to the lead- ! Tng geographical concern of the age. He howed that the ssage to the Indies as not the simple thing men had thought there was strait through the continent of North America in a low latitude, and that if there was one in a | high latitude it could have but little prac- tical significance. Aside from their in- trinsic interest in the history of naviga- ticn Hudson's voyages are memorable for two other things. Firstly, they revealed the existence of whales in vast numbers | about Spitzbergen and stimulated Holland %o take the lead. which she held until a century ago. in the revival and extension of whale_ fishery. Sernn'n;l‘ly. while 'dn:x;»- the North €ape on his return to the Afantic | waters Piudson. May 21 16%. | made the first recorded observation of 2 sun s anticipating Harfot and Galileo by a year or two. The personality of the man is shadowy. We know him to have been boid, energet- ic, able, consumed with zeal to Serve the cause_ he represented. We know, too, that inary surgeons, one officer of the medical | fortune, with refined cruelty, retiréd him ! stafi and corps. | Under a recent order troops ordered abroad will be paid two months in ad- vance. The Third Cavalry, the Fifteenth | Infantry and the company of | will be ‘paid to-day. Lieutenant Colonel Richard I. Eskridge, First Lieutenant Celwyn E. Hampton, fourteen men of the hospital battalion adjutant, and Companies I (Cap- | tain Clagett) and L (Captain Dapray) of ;lhfl depot battalion of the Twenty-thira Infantry, now in_camp at the Presidio, also Companies K (Captain Devore) and M (Captain Allaire). are ordered to Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, for station. Captain Ira L. Fredendall, assistant quarterrhaster, U. 8. V.. and First Lieu- tenant Julian R. Lindsay. Tenth Cavairy, having reported at headguarters, are or- dered to China on the Meade. — Realty Transfers. David Bush & Son report this week ad- ditional sales in the San Martin rancho | chell. These are ten acres to C. Mangels of San Francisco for $1250; 147 acres'to J. A. Flickinger of San Jose for $14,700, and of twenty-one acres to Willlam Lin- | den for $21%. Califormia Safe Deposit and Trust Company to L. R. Poundstone, 720 acres in Colusa County, with improve- ments, $20.000; Raiph Brown to F. Pfeiffer, ilm 105x100, with improvements, corner | consideration $2400. gttt SRR R SR Mrs. Gladstone’s Answer. Mrs, Elizabath Gladstone, who recently recovered judgment for $25,000 damages for breach of promise against Joseph Boardman, the aged Oakland capitalist, has filed answer to Boardman's suit to quiet title to the property now occupied by Mrs. Gladstone, Francisco and Dupont streets. In her answer Mrs. Gladstone de- nies that Boardman has any interest in the property and claims the same as her own. ————— ‘We buy trunks by the carload. That's why we sell good trunks at reasonable rices. Suit cases, valises. travelin, B goln purses and pocketbooks In ourfe:t.rf:r oods department. Sanborn, Vail & Co. ;41 Market street. . e An Insolvent Switchman. Edward J. Powers, a railroad switch- man, residing in Sacramento, filed a peti- tion In insolvency yesterday in the United States District \Court. His liabilities are $607 20, and he has no assets. thfield Wellington C Sou - — i!lt oal, engineers | in Santa Clara County for Phillips & Va- Shattuck and Emerson streets, Berkeley, | | early to the list of those whom she would heat of a distinct and overmastering suc- | Gess In the service of the Dutch East India Compnn{ when he sailed up the Hudson River, he was not a Duteh- as folklore has assumed. but an cess in life. | Englishman through and through and un- | mistakable. Born in_London, no one | knows exactly when, Henry Hudson came of a family of adventurers and explorers. Tt was the Alderman, Henry Hudson, pos- sibly his grandfather, who organized with Sebastian Cabot the Muscovy Company, incorporated 1555, to trade with Rus: and to find a_passage to the Indies. A | nephew of the Alderman. Christopher Hudson, served as agenut of the company | some years later and left behind many ev- idences of his Interest in Arctic explora- | tion and In the colonization of America. | The Alderman’s eldest sonn. Thomas Hud- son, was intimate with Gilbert. Raleigh, Hakluyt and John Davis, whom he ad- vised concerning his search for a north- | west passage, which resuited in the dis- covery of gavis Strait. Whatever his re- lationship to these champfons of explor- | ation we may at least be sure that Henry | Hudson grew up in an atmosphere con- | genial to a growing interest in the ex- | ploratfon and exploitation of the West- | ern Hemisphere. He first appears on the stage of history May 1. 1607, a citizen of London, starting from Greenwich in the service of the Mus- covy Company for the Arctic Ocean. In- structed to sail across the pole and find a assage to the east he tried to penetrate tween Greenland and Spitzbergen, found | no cpening in the solid wall of ice that blocked s way and returned to | the next season he was off again, but near Nova Zembla the ice once more turned him back and the only news of public in- terest which he brought was an accurate description furnished by two of the crew | of a mermaid they had seen with the face of a woman and the tail of a speckled mackerel. In spite of the failure of each voyage Hudson was regeived with open arms at TLondon. He was the Nansen of the year. Though he had done nothing in particular he had been well up north and had come back in safety—a proof that he was no mean sailor. His fame spread to the Con- tinent. Henry IV thought him the bring aistinction to France, but t tering invitation reached flat- him just after he had closed with the more tempting of- | decea: Compary to | ter vs. ish rival and | judgment retic explora- ; !53 o fer of the Dutch East India leave the service of its made a third attempt at tion under its auspices, He set sail from Amsterdam April 4, 1609, in the Half Moon, a little yacht of eighty g:m l:urde'n. mfinned by ; c"n'l:“ k:', an twenty sailors, Dutch an nglish, half and !u{f Hudson carried in his ’ock- et' the latest letter from his old friend / D R R R R R e L e L B e R R started home again ver knew that at the same time from the north had been same goal through Lake Champlain, and was once within twenty leagues of him Stopping In England on his way to Hol- land, Hudson forwarded his report to Amsterdam, and then, before he could fol- was unceremoniously haled again ¥ the King's express command. in its service that made his last voy- age—to fall, as he had falled before, to find _the northwest passage. For six months his ship was locked in the ice at the southern gxtremity of Hudson Bay, vhich, larger than the Black and Casplan . might well be called a sea. A r Hudson had nourished in his bosom proved the death of him. He deserved better of Henry Green, who led the mu- tiny, for, wretch as Green was, he found in the good-hearted captain a firm friend, One midsummer day in 1511 Green and his mutinous companions set adrift in an open boat upon the waste of Arctie waters Henry Hudson, his son John and seven sick men, who were never heard of more. No one Fad striven so earnestly as Henry Hudson to find the nortierly routs to India. Four ways he tried—the way across the pole. the Nova Zembla route, the imaginary sea of Verrazano and the veritable sea of Hudson, Inadequately called a bay. By none of them did he find the route to India or to success. But he did the best he could. which chanced to be the best that any one could do, One thing he did of which historians have never taken note, and yet it was perhaps the most important of the imme- diate results that flowed from his four heroic essays toward the Indies. He stim- ulated the interest of Europeans in the New World. ere was something la: about the man; something large about ti plans he made. He filled up to the full the thought suggested by the line: By the scale of a hemisphere shape your de- signs. He set the pace for smaller men. In the years that followed his return from the lonely er of the Mountains” the little round-pfowed vessels of the Dutch in considerable numbers made their way _1‘2 the river to which he left his name. ade with the Indians began and flour- ished. Even the bays of the present New Jersey and the coast as far south as the Delaware were visited the Dutch fur traders. The energetic fellows pushed out right and left, and fresh discov- eries to the scanty information of the | time. \ | Englana ere the year had ended. Early | | | { | A typical and foremost spirit in this work was Adrian Block. As early as 1611 he visited Manhattan and carried back two sons of an Indian chief. His boat, the Tiger, was burned a little later, and he !Y"m the winter of 1613-14 on Manhat- tan Island in building a yacht of sixteen tons, the Onrust (Restless), to take the Tiger's place. In the spring he safled eastward, passing through the East River, which he called Hellegat (Hel 1 Gate), and explored Long Isiand Sound from end to end. He saw the Housatonic River and asognded the Connecticut as far as the site df Hartford. He explored Narragansett Bay and look: wn that “roode” or “red” island from ich the modern State of Rhode Island derives its pame. Rounding Cape Cod. he went as far as what he called Pye Bay, now Na- hant, which segmed to him “the limit of New Nétherland.” edl‘:)k'tfl‘;lmni he had his fame tuat, y leaving to Amer- ica for wp'enrepeo! its physical features his name. The island known to earlier navi- B o al oc! and. 3 LYMAN P. POWELL. Philadelphia. ———— The Supreme Court has handed down decisions in the following cases: Califor- nia Pastorial and Agricultural Company vs. J. E. Whitson, Treasurer of Fresno County, judgment affirmed; county of 0 | Kern vs. Charles A. Lee et al., judgment affrmed; estate of Amelia Marie Kennedy, sed. judmen(d afl;n;d: ILC" Rich- Union Land and Stocl and order affirmed; Henry ¥ llory et al. v- Rachel J. See et al., er modified and cause remanded for further proceedings; J. C. McCann et al. va. J. C. McMillan et al.. judgment af- firmed; Warren & Malley vs. Jay E. Rus- sell et al., judgment ai ; Vs, Len Garnett, judgment cause remanded for a new trial